Michael OHern

[DataRepublican (small r) @DataRepublican]

Hello Senator Thune,

I'm replying to your post from yesterday: "Despite Democrats' partisan games, we're still going to get the entire federal government funded."

Today, you sent the Senate home... not because of Democrats. Because of you.

Here's what actually happened.

On May 18, the DOJ announced an Anti-Weaponization Fund: $1.776 billion to compensate Americans harmed by Biden-era DOJ abuse. Your own caucus revolted. After a two-hour closed-door meeting, you departed for Memorial Day recess without a vote. ICE and CBP funding, punted to June 1. The "partisan games," it turns out, were yours.

Your stated objections: no congressional authorization, no eligibility standards, no legal precedent, executive overreach. Fine. But let's talk about November 2025, when you tucked a provision into the government funding bill.

The FBI had quietly seized phone records from eight Republican senators without notice, under an investigation codenamed "Arctic Frost."

Your provision gave those senators, and only those senators, $500,000 per violation, retroactive to 2022. The House voted 426-0 to repeal it.

The critics weren't opposed to compensating victims of DOJ abuse. They were opposed to senators compensating themselves while doing no other structural reforms.

Lindsey Graham held the Senate hostage to preserve it. He delayed a spending deal in January 2026 to secure a floor vote on his revised version.

Let's put the two columns next to each other:

➤ DOJ abused senators: $500K/violation payout, senators only, no hearings, no process, no eligibility debate, no floor vote on substance.

➤ DOJ abused Americans: "very legitimate questions," two-hour meeting, Senate goes home, reconciliation punted, June 1 deadline in jeopardy.

You told Punchbowl News you "did not personally see a need for this fund."

You personally saw a need for the fund when the targets were you.

Go cry harder to your Punchbowl friends @JakeSherman and @AndrewDesiderio, because at this rate, they'll soon become the only people who are buying what you're selling.

[Michael OHern @meoh01]

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[Muskonomy @muskonomy]

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[Michael OHern @meoh01]

@GuntherEagleman @LeaderJohnThune What a pathetic RINO!!!!

[Joe Rogan Podcast News @joeroganhq]

Dr. Oz: "Some of you are worried you won’t have Medicare. We would double the life expectancy of the Medicare trust fund if we could get the fraud out of the system."

[Laura Loomer @LauraLoomer]

Eric Swalwell has resigned from Congress.

Incredible.

[Elon Musk @elonmusk]

California legislators are trying to make investigating fraud illegal

[Gunther Eagleman™ @GuntherEagleman]

🚨HUGE MISTAKE: Making John Thune Senate Majority Leader.

Nearly 16 months in, and ZERO election integrity laws passed. Not one secure voting bill... Nothing!

Unacceptable. He is tagged.

[Bo Snerdley @BoSnerdley]

Chris Cuomo claims voter fraud doesn’t exist — then suggests a little is fine https://t.co/Gs0DmEE5dC

[Gunther Eagleman™ @GuntherEagleman]

Democrats are completely to blame for the shutdown.

[Ron DeSantis @RonDeSantis]

Is there evidence that creating TSA has made air travel safer over the past 25 years?

If not, then why not let the airlines and airports handle it?

Why give politicians the power to play games with the travel of our people?

[Bo Snerdley @BoSnerdley]

Games. You Democrats ran out in public and declared you would defund DHS - shut down that part of the government if ICE wasn't "reformed" to your liking - meaning - stop deporting illegal aliens. We all saw you do it. So stop spinning it now that the consequences are apparent.

[James Woods @RealJamesWoods]

Nice end to a life, Mitch, as a traitor to the most sacred American right, free and fair elections. Shame on you.

Who owns him?

[Elon Musk @elonmusk]

Unless we have photo ID, elections are obviously subject to massive unprovable fraud

[Elon Musk @elonmusk]

Absolutely. The judges responsible for repeatedly releasing violent criminals who commit horrific crimes must be impeached.

[James Woods @RealJamesWoods]

There is a special circle of hell for some people, starting with judges like this.

[Eric Daugherty @EricLDaugh]

🚨 HOLY CRAP! Sen. Mike Lee has MIC DROP MOMENT on the Senate floor

"That voting is a constitutionally protected right in NO way, shape, or form means that we have to make it easy to vote and SCREW THE REST! Let's let them cheat? That's NOT a rational conclusion..."

"...UNLESS of course your objective is to facilitate non-citizen fraudulent voting in our elections to the disenfranchisement of actual American citizens who are there to vote!"

"This is NOT a victimless crime, and SHAME on my colleagues for suggesting otherwise."

🫳🏻🎤

[Michael OHern @meoh01]

@RealJamesWoods RINO!!

[Joe Rogan Podcast News @joeroganhq]

Canada is looking to regulate podcasts.

"It's terrifying... They then want them to hand over information about their content, and the people listening, to the government. Trudeau... That's dictatorship stuff, it's banana republic stuff."

[James Woods @RealJamesWoods]

Noem guts him like a perch with a single question.